Compression of acoustic inventories using asynchronous interpolation

A. B. Kain; J. P.H. Van Santen

doi:10.1109/WSS.2002.1224378

Compression of acoustic inventories using asynchronous interpolation

A. B. Kain, J. P.H. Van Santen

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A compression method is proposed that takes advantage of a powerful property of acoustic unit inventories: In the appropriate acoustic space, units that share a (context-dependent or -independent) phoneme label must be close to a vector phoneme template associated with the phoneme. The method approximates units by interpolation between templates. The interpolation operation involves two asynchronous weight functions operating on the template. One is associated with spectral peak locations, the second with spectral balance. This enables approximating transitions such as [i:]→a[v], in which formant movement precedes frication onset. The algorithm guarantees smooth concatenation points.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	83-86
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	0780373952, 9780780373952
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WSS.2002.1224378
State	Published - 2002
Event	2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis - Santa Monica, United States Duration: Sep 11 2002 → Sep 13 2002

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Name	Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis

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Other	2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Monica
Period	9/11/02 → 9/13/02

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Language and Linguistics
Cultural Studies

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Compression of acoustic inventories using asynchronous interpolation. / Kain, A. B.; Van Santen, J. P.H.
Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2002. p. 83-86 1224378 (Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis).

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Kain, AB & Van Santen, JPH 2002, Compression of acoustic inventories using asynchronous interpolation. in Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis., 1224378, Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 83-86, 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica, United States, 9/11/02. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSS.2002.1224378

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